THE BRACELET!

(This is out of order in the timeline of things but I wanted to include it)

On my first trip to Romania God touched me SO deeply with His love and spoke to me so clearly and freely. I called Romania my Psalm 23 place because it is just so beautiful with its green hills and mountains and pristine streams.







(My Psalm 23:1-3 place)


On my second trip to ROmania I brought a team and one of the girls (SU) made bracelets for all the women at the camp. Each bracelet was unique and each one was prayed over and prophesied over- and a word or words were attached to it. All of the bracelets were "spirit led" distributed as the women prayed and then picked one out of a bag. The bracelet that i got was green which immediately reminded me of all the colors of the Romanian hillsides. The word that cmae with it was "Breaker anointing" which is something I have been told many times in various different groups and settings.

Anyway, I loved my bracelet. I loved what it meant to me from God. Outside of my wedding band, it was clearly my favorite piece of jewelery ever. There were only 30 of them made, it was very special....
and then God told me to give it away.

In obedience I gave it away and was happy to do so and would do it again at the Lord's leading. But I mounred the loss. As dumb as that sounds, I seriously mourned the loss. I knew the bracelt was where it needed to be and that brought me such joy, but still I have thought about it often.

The day before I left for trip #3 I emailed my friend and asked her to wear the bracelt this week while I was gone and to pray for us. And about an hour before I left I joked to Mike and said " and then I figure God can also tell her to give it back to me". Mike said "Do your eally want it back". And I said " No, I don't, it's where it needs to be, it just still means a lot to me".

An hour later as we were ready to load into the car to head to the airport Su told me she had something to give me. She pulled out another GREEN bracelet! It wasn't the one she had from camp (she had a red one) but God had led her to make a new one after she returned. She said God wanted me to have this one and she put it on my wrist!!!!!!

This bracelet is different than the first one and I am different than when I went last year! It still holds everything good that God had spoken to me about Romania and my work there and His love for me and yet it speaks that I am in a new season now. I can live with that! I rejoice in that! HE is so good! So kind and full of lavish love!